Manager, Tax Technology — DoorDash Tax Platform & Business Projects (US East Coast)

The role

You will lead tax platform and business projects including new vertical, merchant, and product launches. You will translate business and tax requirements into functional system requirements and oversee end-to-end delivery of tax features.

What you will do

• Lead tax platform and business projects including new vertical, merchant, and product launches
• Gather business and tax requirements and translate them into functional system requirements
• Review BRDs, PRDs, and TDDs for tax-system implications
• Define testing requirements and oversee test validations
• Trace tax-relevant data from upstream systems through Vertex to downstream reporting
• Validate operational and system readiness for production releases
• Serve as a functional bridge between non-tax tech stakeholders and technical tax technology teams
• Partner with US and Mexico based peers and offshore team members

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of indirect tax or indirect tax technology experience
• Well versed in US sales and use tax
• Experience across Canada GST/HST/PST and Australia and New Zealand GST
• Experience in food and beverage and retail tax context
• Hands-on experience implementing or configuring Vertex O Series
• Hands-on experience implementing or configuring ERP tax integration (e.g. NetSuite) with the Vertex tax engine
• Ability to translate business and tax requirements into functional system requirements
• Ability to review technical and functional design documents
• Working knowledge of the end to end tax platform launch processes
• Understanding of how tax data flows from upstream transaction systems through a tax engine to downstream reporting systems
• Project management experience including project charter, plans, milestones, gantt charts, RAID log, and timelines
• Experience with productivity programs (Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides; Monday.com, JIRA etc)

Nice to have

• Fluent in leveraging multiple AI tools on the market (e.g., Claude Cowork, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor)
• Familiarity with Marketplace Facilitator laws
• People-leadership or team-lead experience

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Wellness benefits
• Commuter benefits match
• Paid time off
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• Disability and basic life insurance
• Family-forming assistance
• Mental health program

About the company

DoorDash is a technology and logistics company that started by enabling door-to-door delivery. The company is growing rapidly and aims to empower local economies.